Watch Ex-Twitter Employees Brag About ‘Shadow Banning’ Political Opinions They Don’t Like

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Watch Ex-Twitter Employees Brag About ‘Shadow Banning’ Political Opinions They Don’t Like
The Federalist, Jan 11, 2018, Bre Payton   

Newly released undercover video footage from Project Veritas shows current and former Twitter employees bragging about their ability to censor people on the platform whose political opinions they don’t like.

“One strategy is to shadow ban so you have ultimate control,” a former Twitter software engineer, Abhinov Vadrevu, says in the video. “The idea of a shadow ban is that you ban someone but they don’t know they’ve been banned, because they keep posting and no one sees their content. So they just think that no one is engaging with their content, when in reality, no one is seeing it.”

“You just sort of turn off all the features for them,” Vadrevu continues. “They still see everything, it’s all there. You can like it, favorite it, or you can like retweet, or whatever. But at the end of the day, no one else interacts. No one else sees what you’re doing.”


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“Yeah you look for Trump, or America, and you have like five thousand keywords to describe a redneck,” he adds. “Then you look and parse all the messages, all the pictures, and then you look for stuff that matches that stuff.”

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